These datasets reflect an update of Latent Judicial Independence (Linzer and Staton 2015). Newer versions of Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI), Polity IV�s executive constraints (XCONST), PRS Group, Feld-Voigt, and Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) are included. Further, two measures of de facto judicial independence were included from the Varieties of Democracy Project (V-Dem), high court independence (v2juhcind) and high court compliance (v2juhccomp).In the case of GCR, a new interval measure was used containing seven categories instead of ten in the original dataset. In all estimations in this update, the new GCR measure is treated as an additional indicator to the original eight.For Feld-Voigt, if a value in the update differed from the original dataset, the more current value was used for the entirety of the 1980-2015 time period.Unless otherwise stated, all coding conventions from the original estimation were used.The file �jimeasures_1210.csv� contains the manifest indicators of judicial independence. Scores have been updated through 2015 when possible. XCONST has been carried back to 1900.The file �LJI-estimates-20170321.csv� contains the estimates from the model using observations carried forward to 2015 but excludes V-Dem indicators from the model. Earlier measures of XCONST have not been included. Thus, it contains estimates of latent judicial independence from 1948-2015, making use only of the scores used to produce the estimates originally reported in the Linzer and Staton (2015). The file �LJI-estimates-20181210.csv� are the estimates from the model using observations carried forward to 2015 and includes the V-Dem measures for high court compliance and high court independence. Earlier measures of XCONST have been included. Thus, it contains estimates of latent judicial independence from 1900-2015. These estimates incorporate information provided by the V-Dem scores. Works CitedCingranelli, David L., David L. Richards, and K. Chad Clay. 2014. "The CIRI Human Rights Dataset."  http://www.humanrightsdata.com. Version 2014.04.14.Coppedge, Michael, John Gerring, Staffan I. Lindberg, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jan Teorell, David Altman, Michael Bernhard, M. Steven Fish, Adam Glynn, Allen Hicken, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Joshua Krusell, Anna L�hrmann, Kyle L. Marquardt, Kelly McMann, Valeriya Mechkova, Moa Olin, Pamela Paxton, Daniel Pemstein, Josefine Pernes, Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca, Johannes von R�mer, Laura Saxer, Brigitte Seim, Rachel Sigman, Jeffrey Staton, Natalia Stepanova, and Steven Wilson. 2017. �V-Dem [Country-Year/Country-Date] Dataset v7.1� Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project.�Linzer, Drew A., and Jeffrey K. Staton. 2015. "A global measure of judicial independence, 1948�2012." Journal of Law and Courts 3, no. 2: 223-256.Gurr, Ted Robert, Monty G. Marshall, and Keith Jaggers. 2016. "POLITY IV PROJECT: Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions, 1800-2015, Dataset Users." Center for Systemic Peace.Pemstein, Daniel, Kyle L. Marquardt, Eitan Tzelgov, Yi-ting Wang, Joshua Krusell and Farhad Miri. 2017. �The V-Dem Measurement Model: Latent Variable Analysis for Cross-National and Cross-Temporal Expert-Coded Data�. University of Gothenburg, Varieties of Democracy Institute: Working Paper No. 21, 2nd edition.PRS Group. 2016. �International Country Risk Guide.� http://www.prsgroup.com/icrg.aspxVoigt, Stefan, Jerg Gutmann, and Lars P. Feld. 2015. "Economic growth and judicial independence, a dozen years on: Cross-country evidence using an updated set of indicators." European Journal of Political Economy 38: 197-211.World Economic Forum. 2016. �Global Competitiveness Index Historical Dataset 2005-2015.� http://reports.weforum.org/global-competitiveness-report-2015-2016/